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Agriculture ReporterThe Agricultural Marketing Authority has warned cotton buyers against discouraging other buyers from paying prices above the agreed minimum prices. Presently, buyers are offering prices ranging between US38-48 cents per kilogramme. In a statement, AMA advised all registered buyers to pay prices above the agreed prices in line with the market
Amen Mpofu duped
Bulawayo bureauTHE outgoing Bulawayo deputy mayor Mr Amen Mpofu was reportedly tricked by MDC-T senior officials into believing that he will be included on the party’s Senate list, only to discover that he had been dumped. Party sources told the Chronicle that senior officials promised Mr Mpofu that his name would be forwarded on the senators’ list in Bulawayo
Mudede challenges ‘doubting Thomases’
Tendai Mugabe Senior ReporterTHE Registrar General of Voters has challenged all parties alleging irregularities in the voter registration exercise to visit the RG’s office and observe the process for themselves.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has also issued a similar call which it said had found no takers. Addressing journalists yesterday, Registrar General of Voters Mr Tobaiwa
ZEC holds ‘train the trainer’ workshop
Senior ReporterPreparations for the harmonised elections set for July 31 intensified yesterday with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission carrying out a one-day “train the trainer” workshop for electoral agents of political parties and independent candidates. Speaking at the workshop yesterday, ZEC chairperson Justice Rita Makarau said the country had already gone
Chaos rocks MDC-T Chitungwiza
Takunda Maodza Senior ReporterTHERE is chaos within the MDC-T in Chitungwiza after provincial chairman Mr Alex Musundire approved double candidates to stand in one ward in local government elections while some disgruntled supporters opted to stand as independents, a development likely to seriously divide the party’s votes. Now in some areas, the MDC-T has three candidates
I’m not party to Ncube’s application: President
Lovemore Chikova News EditorPresident Mugabe and Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa yesterday rejected MDC leader Professor Welshman Ncube’s attempt to make them joint applicants in a case in which he is seeking the extension of the harmonised elections date from July 31. In his papers filed yesterday, President Mugabe said Prof Ncube had improperly joined
In-laws annul Zim dollar lobola
Court ReporterA Harare man yesterday approached the court after failing to obtain a death certificate for his wife as his in-laws annulled his Zimbabwean-dollar bride price. The estate dispute between Owen Tafirei and his in-laws has spilled to the Harare Civil Court after they denied that he was married to their daughter. Tafirei was seeking to register the estate of his
Hubby apologies, reunites with wife in court
Court ReporterA Harare couple reunited in court yesterday with the man asking for forgiveness and swearing before God that he would never abuse his wife again. A remorseful Nazir Wazir Mahomed pleaded for forgiveness from his wife Louana who had made a protection order application against him. In her application Louana told the court that her husband was
Woman found dead near church
Prosper DembedzaA 24-year-old Chinhoyi woman was on Monday found dead and naked near a church building with two deep cuts on her right eye. Regerai Vheremu’s body was found by a passerby identified as Peter Chinhive (48) lying naked beside a Roman Catholic church building in Lions’ Den. Mashonaland West provincial police spokesperson Inspector